The story begins with a man who is a worker in the fields of industry and his wife who is about to take a bath. The wife and another woman who were about to take the bath see a crowd of people excited for the chief soothsayer's wife coming to their establishment. The wife of the man, jealous of the soothsayer's wife, tells her husband he must become a soothsayer of she will leave him. He doesn't want to lose her, gets advice from a friend to talk to a woman who also takes baths, and she devises a plan where he dresses up as a hodja ( a person who can find lost items ). They wait by the bath, and when the soothsayer's wife comes by, the lady steals her ring secretly, hides it, and tells the man of its location. When the wife panics that it is lost, he amazes her and the crowd by seeming to magically know exactly where it is and he is seen as a soothsayer by everyone. However, the wife loses it again and her husband calls in the fake hodja and tells him he has until tomorrow morning to know where it is or his head will be cut off. It turns out that a servant stole the ring and she sneaks in to tell the fake hodja that she stole it and he tells her to make a goose swallow it and break his neck. The next day, the fake hodja amazes everyone that he knows exactly where it is, and he is promoted and becomes successful.
I chose this story because while it was good, I would like to change the ending. I would redo the story in a very similar fashion and in the same time period but change the setting. The man will instead get himself into trouble that he is not able to get out of when he has the jewel/ring be hidden in a bucket of flower in a storage room, but in morning a new shipment of flower comes in and he has no idea and gets killed. It would serve as a purpose of teaching not to lie or you will end up in a situation you can't get out of.
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Bibliography
The Soothsayer by Ignacz Kunos
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